Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) on Monday announced a major offshore gas discovery at the Jaza field, reporting initial well output above 29 million standard cubic feet per day of gas and more than 5,000 barrels per day of condensate.
The company said the reservoir has low CO?, no hydrogen sulfide and no associated water, which are attributes that lower processing costs and speed tie-in options to Kuwait’s domestic network, according to Qatar News Agency, described the discovery as setting a new benchmark for vertical-well output from the Minagish formation in Kuwait’s offshore acreage.
The Peninsula, which cited Kuwait Petroleum Corporation’s statement on the test results from the Jaza-1 well, placed the discovery roughly 40 square kilometers in area with preliminary resources around 1 trillion cubic feet of gas and more than 120 million barrels of condensate.
Kuwait is building on a string of offshore successes following 2024–2025 finds at Al-Nokhatha and Al-Jlaiaa.
Kuwait’s oil ministry and KPC have spent the past two years reopening the offshore frontier, part of a broader plan to lift non-associated gas output and reduce summer LNG import dependence. The latest discovery follows last year’s “giant” Al-Nokhatha find, which is estimated at about 2.1 billion barrels of oil and 5.1 trillion cubic feet of gas, and this January’s Al-Jlaiaa confirmation, both flagged by state and wire services at the time.
Monday’s Jaza result comes as Kuwait reassesses upstream capacity and OPEC+ positioning.
In late September, officials told local media that the country’s crude capacity had reached 3.2 million bpd, the highest in more than a decade, even as policy limits actual production. A scalable, low-impurity offshore gas stream would give Kuwait more flexibility on power generation fuels and petrochemicals feedstock while freeing up crude for export.
According to the Kuwait Oil Company, Jaza’s figures are preliminary and could be revised upward with additional appraisal across adjacent prospects.
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
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